A chamber music recital by the Artis Quartet: Peter Schuhmayer and Johannes Meissl (violins), Herbert Kefer (viola), Othmar Müller (cello)
Symphony no. 2 in C minor Op.17 (Little Russian)
Marie Matejkova (soprano), Ilona Satylova (alto), Jiri Vinklarek (tenor), Michael Mergl (bass), Miluska Kvechova (organ), Czech Radio Choir, Pilzen Radio Orchestra, Stanislaw Begunia (conductor)
3 Movements from Petrushka transc. for piano
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arr. Perry, Harold
Divertimento (Feldpartita) (H.
) in B flat major arr. for wind quintet (attributed to Haydn, possibly by Pleyel)
Romanian folk dances (Sz.68) orch. from Sz.56
Albrecht Rau (violin), Heinrich Rau (viola), Clemens Malich (cello), Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord)
Joan Carden (soprano), John Winter (piano obbligato), The Orchestra of Sydney, John Harding (conductor)
Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall, ALIA VOX. We also have our daily brainteaser at
2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and Sarah's guest this week is the developmental psychologist, Prof. Uta Frith. Uta is a leading expert in the areas of dyslexia and autism, and has contributed several major theories, which have helped form a better understanding of the conditions. Her aim still is to discover the underlying causes of these disorders, and to link them to behaviour and to the brain. She has received an extensive list of awards for her outstanding research, including an honorary DBE in 2012.
At the age of 34, Locatelli gave up his international career as a virtuoso violinist and decided to settle in Amsterdam where he remained for the rest of his life. As the centre of European music publishing it proved a magnet to many composers and Locatelli, the astute businessman, took full advantage of the opportunities which presented themselves. Donald Macleod introduces some of the chamber music Locatelli published there with the ever-growing amateur market in mind, a concerto grosso from his innovative op.4 collection and another of the violin concertos from his ground-breaking magnum opus, 'L'arte del violino'.
The Chiaroscuro Quartet celebrate Haydn with a performance of one of his landmark 'Sun' quartets, Op 20, alongside Mozart's E flat Quartet, which he described as 'the fruits of a long and laborious effort' in his attempt to emulate the great master of the genre.
Scenes of childhood is one of the themes of Penny Gore's selection of music from the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers.
Miyoshi: Five Pictures for Children: 3. Yajiro-be 'A Balancing Toy'; 4. The Sand-Glass
Suzy Klein and guests from the arts world with a lively mix of music and chat, including opera stars Bryn Terfel and Joseph Calleja on Gounod's Faust at the Royal Opera House, violinist Rachel Kolly d'Alba playing live and composer Gabriel Jackson on his new work, being premiered at Merton College, Oxford.
Suzy will also be catching up with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on their India tour - a Commonwealth Games 2014 cultural and educational collaboration between The BBC, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the British Council.
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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits perform music by Mozart and Bruckner, with pianist Francesco Piemontesi.
Live from the Lighthouse in Poole. Introduced by Martin Handley
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 27 in B flat major, K595
Bruckner: Symphony no. 9 in D minor
Orhan Pamuk talks, in an extended conversation with Philip Dodd, about his writing career and his views of modern Turkey. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2006, his novels include The Black Book, Snow, My Name is Red and The Museum of Innocence - a book and a real building created by the author which earlier this year was awarded the European Museum of the Year award. There's also his nonfiction including the memoir Istanbul.
In this conversation, recorded earlier this year, he discusses the idea of division between the religious and the secular and division in a more personal, internalised way and he tackles the question of whether Turkey should join the European Union. Earlier this month the European Union's executive arm pressed for long-stalled membership talks with Turkey to begin again with negotiations over changes in two policy areas hampering the accession process - current Turkish policy on civil rights and judicial independence.
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
3. John Walsh reckons that 'below' it feels wintry; yet ascend near a village called Steep and spring beckons. But where is he?
Mara Carlyle explores songs about death, plus music from Georgian singer Hamlet Gonashvili, Siouxsie and the Banshees and orchestral sounds from A Winged Victory for the Sullen.
Mara Carlyle is a British singer, songwriter and arranger whose sound combines an eclectic range of influences, including choral music, jazz, bluegrass, electronica & R&B. Her musical collaborators have included Matthew Herbert, Willy Mason, MF DOOM and the London Contemporary Orchestra. She is known for reworking songs by classical composers from John Dowland to Benjamin Britten, and her arrangement of Schubert's Du bist die Ruh was featured in Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert Season in 2012.
THURSDAY 03 APRIL 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03z9k9z)
With John Shea.
Chopin's 24 preludes Op.28 and Schumann's Kreisleriana performed by pianist Nelson Goerner
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata in E flat major K.282 for piano
12:46 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Kreisleriana - 8 fantasies Op.16 for piano
1:18 AM
Chopin, Frédéric [1810-1849]
24 Preludes Op.28 for piano
1:56 AM
Chopin, Frédéric [1810-1849]
Nocturne in D flat major Op.27 No.2 for piano
2:02 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.21 (K.467) in C major
Håvard Gimse (piano), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
2:31 AM
Pizzetti, Ildebrando [1880-1968]
Requiem mass, for a cappella choir
Radio France Chorus, Donald Palumbo (conductor)
2:56 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in D major 'Darmstadt' (TWV.55:D15)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
3:18 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sarabande from Suite for solo cello in C (BWV.1009)
Miklós Perényi (cello)
3:22 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
From 'Legends' (Op.59): No.4 (Molto maestoso) in C major
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
3:29 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Trost in Tränen (D.120) (Consolation in tears)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:32 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Sehnsucht (D.123) (Longing)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:35 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Die Liebe (D.210) (Love)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:38 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Till Eulenspiegel (Op.28)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
3:53 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706)
Canon and Gigue in D major
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin and director), Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord)
3:58 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826]
Concertino for clarinet and orchestra (Op.26) in E flat major
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri , Sakari Oramo (conductor)
4:09 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), arr. Maarten Bon
Jeux arranged for 8 hands
Yoko Abe, Gérard van Blerk, Maarten Bon, Sepp Grotenhuis (pianos)
4:25 AM
Vásquez, [Vázquez] Juan (c.1500-c.1560) and Encina, Juan del [1468-c.1529]
Vos me matastes; Oy comamos y bebamos - Villancico a3
Trio Montparnasse
4:31 AM
Gotovac, Jakov (1895-1982)
Symphonic Dance 'Kolo' (Op.12) (1926)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (conductor)
4:40 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Variations about the hymn 'Gott erhalte'
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:48 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for violin and string orchestra No.1 in A minor (BWV.1041)
Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (violin and conductor)
4:59 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Panis Angelicus
Milena Ognyanova (treble), Theodora Dimitrova (organ), Bulgarian Children's Choir, Hristo Nedyalkov (conductor)
5:04 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Three Marches (K.408)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
5:16 AM
Squire, William Henry (1871-1963)
Tarantella for cello and piano (Op.23)
Il-Hwan Bai (cello), Dai-Hyun Kim (piano)
5:21 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Trittico Botticelliano
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
5:42 AM
Da Nola, Giovanni Domenico del Giovane (b.Nola, between 1510 and 1520; d.Naples, May 1592)
O Dio se vede chiaro
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
5:46 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Trio in B flat major Op.11 for clarinet, cello and piano
Martin Fröst (clarinet) Thorleif Thedén (cello) Roland Pöntinen (piano)
6:08 AM
Cage, John (1912-1992)
Four2 for a cappella choir
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
6:16 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Russian Overture (Op.72)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03z9kbt)
Thursday - Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03z9kdk)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith
with Sarah Walker and her guest, developmental psychologist, Uta Frith.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall, ALIA VOX. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy
10.30am
2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and Sarah's guest this week is the developmental psychologist, Prof. Uta Frith. Uta is a leading expert in the areas of dyslexia and autism, and has contributed several major theories, which have helped form a better understanding of the conditions. Her aim still is to discover the underlying causes of these disorders, and to link them to behaviour and to the brain. She has received an extensive list of awards for her outstanding research, including an honorary DBE in 2012.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 'Spring'
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03z9kfy)
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
The Virtuoso Violinist
Locatelli seems to have made a comfortable living in Amsterdam, not just from the sale of his music but also from teaching and from selling strings and bows imported from Italy. He continued to perform, as witnessed by a young English gentleman and his tutor who provided vivid accounts of Locatelli's virtuosity. There were conflicting attitudes to Locatelli's music; in England it was rather mixed, whereas in France they welcomed his innovative style of writing. Donald Macleod introduces another of Locatelli's flute sonatas that proved so popular amongst amateur musicians across Europe and one of the violin sonatas which best demonstrates the technical wizardry for which he became renowned.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03z9kk4)
The Legacy of Haydn
Apollon Musagete Quartet
New Generation Artists, the Apollon Musagete Quartet, pay homage to Haydn in this series highlighting his legacy to future composers. Performing at the Perth Concert Hall, they present the D major Quartet from his later set, Op 71, alongside Beethoven's second 'Rasumovsky' Quartet in E minor, which shocked audiences and players alike at its first performance. 'They are not for you but for a later age' the composer is said to have responded to his critics.
Haydn: Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2 'Rasumovsky'
Apollon Musagete Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03zd5b3)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
Opera matinee - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, favola in musica
Monteverdi's colourful fable in music, written in 1607 for performance at the Duke of Gonzaga's court in Mantua, is performed here at Crakow's Misteria Paschalia Festival by one of Italy's leading early music groups. Beginning with its famous toccata, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo tells the legend of Orpheus, who "held the wild beasts spellbound with his song," but who descends to Hades in a fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world. The drama moves between the pastoral world of the fields of Thrace and the Underworld as Monteverdi explores every musical device available to a composer standing on the cusp of the Renaissance and the Baroque to paint one of the richest and most beautiful tapestries in all music. As a member of the audience in that first performance noted: "Both poet and musician have depicted the inclinations of the heart so skilfully that it could not have been done better ... nothing more beautiful is to be heard anywhere".
La Musica / Euridice ..... Roberta Mameli (soprano),
Orfeo ..... Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor),
La Messaggiera / Speranza ..... Marina De Liso (contralto),
Proserpina / Ninfa ..... Giorgia Milanesi (soprano),
Plutone / Apollo ..... Ugo Guagliardo (bass),
Caronte ..... Salvo Vitale (bass),
Pastore I ..... Luca Cervoni (tenor),
Pastore II / Spirito I ..... Alessio Tosi (tenor),
Pastore III..... Raffaele Pé (countertenor),
Pastore IV / Spirito II ..... Tony Corradini (bass),
Capella Cracoviensis Chamber Chorus
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina (conductor)
Recorded in Cracow at the Misteria Paschalia Festival 2013.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03zd5t6)
Colin Currie, Mariss Jansons, Kasparas Uinskas
Suzy Klein's guests include percussion star Colin Currie - praised for his "athletic percussionism, compulsive showmanship and deep musicality". He'll be playing live in the studio.
Seen by many as the best conductor in the world, Mariss Jansons, talks to Suzy about his epic 3 night Barbican
Also today, we'll be catching up with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and violinist Nicola Benedetti on their India tour - a Commonwealth Games 2014 cultural and educational collaboration between The BBC, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the British Council.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03z9kfy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03zd8g7)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Ravel, Puccini, Respighi
Live from Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, in Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole & Piano Concerto in G, with soloist Kirill Gerstein. The second half is an all-Italian programme of Puccini's Capriccio Sinfonico and Respighi's Pines of Rome.
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
8.10pm:
Interval, including Puccini's Crisantemi for string quartet and Respighi's Il Tramonto
8.30pm:
Puccini: Capriccio Sinfonico
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Maurice Ravel absorbed the jazz blues on his trips to the USA, but also had a special place in his heart for the hot-blooded rhythms of his native Basque Country. Ottorino Respighi took an enchanted musical tour of his adopted home city of Rome, where even the pine trees had a song to sing; and Puccini imagined what it might be like to write a symphony rather than an opera - but still came up with some of his incredible trademark melodies.
Conductor Vasily Petrenko whisks us southwards - and after creating such a stir on his last visit to Liverpool, pianist Kirill Gerstein should make Ravel's concerto sparkle and dance like never before.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03zdbnl)
Is War Good for Us?
Anne McElvoy looks at the impact of war, the Afghan elections and childhood violence. She's joined by Professor Hew Strachan, author of 'The Direction of War - Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective,' and Ian Morris, author of 'War, What is it Good For? The Role of Conflict in Civilisation from Primates to Robots.'
Film critic Charlotte O Sullivan has been watching 'I Declare War,' Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson's film about childhood games which turn sour.
And thirteen years after British troops entered combat in Afghanistan, and in the week that the British Command handed over to the Americans in Helmand province, Noorjahan Akbar and Hamdullah Mohib talk about what has happened to their culture and society in Afghanistan over that time and what might change with national elections at the week-end.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03zdbnn)
Springwalks
Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
4. Kirsty Gunn is in Sutherland, debating whether to ford the chilly River Brora on an afternoon hike.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03zdc32)
Thursday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle presents a sequence of husband and wife collaborations, and a look at false relation harmony plus music from Trudie Dawn Smith, Jacques Brel and Wanderley Monteiro.
Mara Carlyle is a British singer, songwriter and arranger whose sound combines an eclectic range of influences, including choral music, jazz, bluegrass, electronica & R&B. Her musical collaborators have included Matthew Herbert, Willy Mason, MF DOOM and the London Contemporary Orchestra. She is known for reworking songs by classical composers from John Dowland to Benjamin Britten, and her arrangement of Schubert's Du bist die Ruh was featured in Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert Season in 2012.
FRIDAY 04 APRIL 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03z9kb1)
With John Shea. Pelleas and Melisande by Fauré and Sibelius, and Iberia by Debussy with the Bulgarian NRSO
12:31 AM
Fauré, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Pelléas et Mélisande - suite Op.80;
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (conductor)
12:48 AM
Doppler, Franz [1821-1883]
Concerto in D minor for 2 flutes and orchestra;
Patrick Gallois (flute), Yavor Zhelev (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (director)
1:07 AM
Doppler, Franz [1821-1883]
Concerto in D minor for 2 flutes and orchestra - 3rd mvt cadenza
Patrick Gallois (flute), Yavor Zhelev (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (director)
1:11 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Pelleas and Melisande - incidental music Op.46;
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (conductor)
1:36 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Iberia
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (conductor)
1:57 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Quartet for strings No.2 (Op.13) in A minor
Johnston Quartet
2:31 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795)
Ino - solo cantata for soprano and orchestra
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
3:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 9 (K.271) in E flat major ('Jeunehomme')
Plamena Mangova (piano), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
3:33 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony in D major (Op.10 No.5)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
3:42 AM
Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)
3:53 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Impromptu in G flat major (Op.51)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
3:58 AM
Dekleva, Igor (b.1933)
The Wind is Singing
Ipavska Chamber Choir, Tomaz Pirnat (conductor)
4:05 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso [1671-1750]
Adagio in G minor (arr. for organ and trumpet)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:12 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains (Op.68 No.4); At the cradle (Op.68 No.5)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:21 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto VII in F major for four violins & basso continuo (RV.567) - from 'L'estro Armonico' (Op.3)
Paul Wright, Natsumi Wakamatsu, Sayuri Yamagata, Staas Swierstra (violins), Hidemi Suzuki (cello), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:31 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Ruslan i Lyudmila (overture)
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Hubert Soudant (conductor)
4:37 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano No.3 (Op.39) in C sharp minor
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:45 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
The Secret of the Struma River
Gusla Men's Choir, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
4:53 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Chacony a 4 for strings (Z.730) in G minor
Psophos Quartet
5:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio and fugue for strings (K.546) in C minor
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
5:09 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
2 graduals for chorus:(Locus iste; Christus Factus est)
Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen (conductor)
5:17 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sonata in G major for flute, violin and continuo (BWV.1038)
Musica Petropolitana
5:24 AM
Matz, Rudolf (1901-1988)
Ballade for violin, cello & piano
Zagreb Piano Trio
5:32 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Fantasy for violin and orchestra (Op.131) in C major
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
5:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
French Suite no. 5 in G major BWV.816
Evgeni Koroliov (piano)
6:07 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Collegium Aureum.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03z9kbw)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny live from Mumbai
Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, live in Mumbai as he joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on their ground-breaking tour of India, part of the celebrations for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03z9kdm)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith
with Sarah Walker and her guest, developmental psychologist, Uta Frith.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall, ALIA VOX. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy
10.30am
2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and Sarah's guest this week is the developmental psychologist, Prof. Uta Frith. Uta is a leading expert in the areas of dyslexia and autism, and has contributed several major theories, which have helped form a better understanding of the conditions. Her aim still is to discover the underlying causes of these disorders, and to link them to behaviour and to the brain. She has received an extensive list of awards for her outstanding research, including an honorary DBE in 2012.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Schumann
Symphony No. 1 in B flat Op. 38 'Spring'
Staatskapelle Dresden
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03z9kg0)
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
The Man - Fact or Fiction?
After Locatelli's death, the catalogue of the sale of his belongings revealed that he evidently made a comfortable living and his very extensive library and impressive collection of portraits, scientific and musical instruments gives an insight into his cultural life. Locatelli's interest in the classics may well have informed his decision to write the only piece of his that has a title, based on the mythological figure of Ariadne. Donald Macleod introduces this atmospheric work together with the final concerto from Locatelli's collection 'L'arte del violino' which contains one of his infamous caprices and earned the concerto its nickname 'The Harmonic Labyrinth' - easy to enter, difficult to escape.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03z9kk6)
The Legacy of Haydn
Signum Quartet
New Generation Artists, the Signum Quartet,round off this week in homage to Haydn and his legacy with one of his last quartets paired with the ground-breaking C major Quartet by Mozart nicknamed the 'Dissonance' because of its tense and chromatic opening. This concert was recorded at the Perth Concert Hall.
Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 76 No 2
Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 'Dissonance'
Signum Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03zd5b5)
BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents a concert of unaccompanied Russian choral music from the BBC Singers, Villa Lobos chamber music from the Guildhall New Music Ensemble and music by Damase from the BBC Concert Orchestra's latest CD.
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Devo (Vespers 1910)
Sviridov: No 2 Liubov sviataya (3 Choruses from Tolstoy's 'Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich'
Nikolai Kedroff Sr (arr Vladimir Morosan): Otche nash (Our Father)
Nikolai Golovanov: Milost' mira (A Mercy of Peace)
Alexander Kastalsky: Svete tihiy (Gladsome Light No. 1)
Alexandre Grechaninov: Svete Tihiy (Gladsome Light, op 58/4)
Pavel Chesnokov: Cheruvimskaya Pesn' (Cherubic Hymn; Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
op 42)
arr Nikolai Kedroff Sr: Zhavoronchek (Skylark)
Mikhail Ruzanov: Vecherniy zvon (Evening Bells)
Shostakovich: Two Russian Folksong Arrangements
BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Jean Michel Damase: Concertino
Ashley Wass (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates
Villa Lobos: Quinteto (em forma de choros); Quinteto Instrumental; Assobio a Jato (Jet Whistle);
Songs for voice and piano:
1. Cançao do marinheiro (from Modinhas e cançoes)
2. Lundù da Marqueza de Santos (from Modinhas e cançoes)
3. Cantilena (from Modinhas e cançoes)
4. Amor y Perfidia (cançon espanhola)
5. Pudor (from Epigramas ironicos e sentimentais)
6. Perversidade (from Epigramas ironicos e sentimentais)
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Jean Michel Damase: Symphonie
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03zd5t8)
Tina May, Brodowski Quartet, John Storgards, David Kadouch
Suzy Klein's guests include jazz singer Tina May with the Brodowski String Quartet. They'll be playing live in the studio ahead of their gig at Bowed Over - a festival bringing the string quartet into the jazz world at Dean Street, London.
Conductor John Storgards discusses his new recording of the complete Sibelius symphonies with the BBC Philharmonic and French pianist David Kadouch will play live in the studio as he looks forward to taking part in 'It's All About Piano' at the French Institute.
Plus we'll be catching up with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on their India tour with violinist Nicola Benedetti - a Commonwealth Games 2014 cultural and educational collaboration between The BBC, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the British Council.
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FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03z9kg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03zd8gf)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Haydn, Bruckner
Live from the Barbican
Mariss Jansons conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam in Bruckner's Seventh Symphony and Haydn's Cello Concerto in C with Truls Mørk as soloist.
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C
c.
8.00pm
Interval Music: A motet by Bruckner and the Adagio from his String Quintet in F with its pre-echos of the Seventh Symphony.
8.20pm
Bruckner: Symphony No 7
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Truls Mørk, cello
Mariss Jansons, conductor
On 8 December 1881, Anton Bruckner looked from the window of his Vienna apartment as the Ringtheater burned to the ground, taking 386 audience members to their graves. The experience shook Bruckner to his very core, and made its way into the strange unease of his Seventh Symphony's scherzo. However, the redemption witnessed by Bruckner when inside the theatre attending performances of Wagner's opera Parsifal, powered this symphony on.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03zdbnq)
Lydia Davis, Bill Manhire, Siddhartha Bose, John Robinson
Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the word' presented by Ian McMillan. This week his guests include Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate Bill Manhire, Siddhartha Bose and John Robinson on 'Pavement Patois'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03zdbns)
Springwalks
Philip Hoare in Sholing
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
5. Philip Hoare is quickly at the water's edge in Sholing, well before the waking hour. Then meetings with many animals are recalled.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03zdc3s)
Mayra Andrade, Commonwealth Connections 9
Lopa Kothari with tracks from across the globe, Commonwealth Connections from Rwanda and Pakistan, and a session with Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade.
'Commonwealth Connections' is a BBC Radio 3 landmark 26-part weekly series leading up to the Commonwealth Games in July, featuring music from each of the 53 member states, reflecting the range of music and culture across the whole organisation.
Music feature from Rwanda:
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, which was triggered by the assassination of the Rwandan President on April 6th 1994, and continued for 100 days, with an estimated death toll of more than half a million. Since then Rwanda has seen a remarkable transformation, and the capital Kigali is now a prosperous and thriving capital. Music has played its part in that transformation, and we hear first from Sophie Nzayisenga, who sings and plays the traditional stringed instrument, the inanga. She lost brothers and sisters in the conflict, surviving by hiding in the bush with her father for the hundred days. She is now involved in Rwanda's Cultural Upgrading Initiative, which seeks to promote harmony through traditional music. There is also a session with Gakondo, a traditional group which plays regular concerts at the Hotel Milles Collines, well known around the world as the former UN hotel which became a refuge during the genocide.
Heritage Track: Pakistan
Kiran Khan is one of Pakistan's first international female swimmers. She talks about the responsibilities and pressures of being a media celebrity and a role-model for other women, and the difficulties of pursuing her chosen sport in a Muslim country. Her uplifting music choice, Jazba-e-Junoon, to himmat na haar by Ali Azmat, reflects the support she's received from her family, particularly her father, who always dreamed that his daughter should fulfil her dreams and become an inspiration to others.
Session with Mayra Andrade:
She was born in Cuba, but her parents were from Cape Verde, and her main musical influences have always been the songs of these islands. Although she has lived in Paris in recent years, most of her songs are in Cape Verde's local Crioulo language. Her new album 'Lovely Difficult' has already been nominated for a French Victoires de la Musique Award.